Featured on the cover of Opera News as one of "opera’s exciting new voices," Chinese baritone WANG Yunpeng is quickly gaining international recognition on both the opera and concert stages of the world. In the 2020/21 seasson, Mr. WANG was to sing the title role in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande at the Los Angeles Opera conducted by James Conlon; Merlin in Chausson’s Le roi Arthus at Bard Summerscape under the baton of Leon Botstein; and Marcello in La Bohème with China Hong Kong Opera; as well as cover the role of Mercutio at the Metropolitan Opera before the pandemic forced all productions to be cancelled. He is still scheduled to perform TAN Dun’s Buddha Passion with the Seattle Symphony in the summer of 2021.

During the 2019/20 season, he performed the roles of Le fauteuil and L'arbre in Ravel’s L'enfant et les sortilèges for concerts with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He also made two Italian house debuts this season, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and Teatro Dal Verme in Milan, as he returned to the role of WEN Tianxiang in Enjott Schneider’s Marco Polo under the baton of TANG Muhai. Mr. WANG also made his Danish debut in the CPH Opera Festival’s new production of La Bohème at the Østre Gasværk Teater in Copenhagen where he made dual role debuts alternating performances as Marcello and Schaunard.

The highlight of Mr. WANG’s 2018/19 season was his stage debut in the title role in Pelléas et Mélisande at the Teatro Municpal in São Paulo, a role he had previously covered at the Metropolitan Opera. Additional appearances that season included Orff’s Carmina Burana with conductor Roberto Abbado and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, a concert version of Madama Butterfly with the Pacific Symphony, a performance of Vaughan Williams’s Dona nobis pacem with the Hartford Symphony, and a tour with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Centre featuring Barber’s Dover Beach that culminated in a concert at Alice Tully Hall in New York. Mr. WANG also sang the title role in the Chinese premiere of Buddha Passion in Xi'an with the Orchestre National de Lyon conducted by the composer TAN Dun.

Previous performances at the Metropolitan Opera have included Mercutio in Bartlett Sher’s new production of Roméo et Juliette conducted by Emmanuel Villaume; a Flemish Deputy in Don Carlos under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin; appearing twice in the Live in HD series in movie theatres around the world as Prince Yamadori in Anthony Minghella’s production of Madama Butterfly and Fiorello in The Barber of Seville with conducting duties shared by Antony Walker and Michele Mariotti; as well as appearing in the company’s 50^th anniversary gala and the Summer Recital Series in New York City parks. Additional career highlights include Fieramosca in scenes from Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini conducted by James Levine and Agamemnon in Gluck’s Iphigénie en Aulide under Jane Glover, both with Met+Juilliard; appearances at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy, including his role debut as Figaro in a concert version of Il Barbiere di Siviglia under the baton of Alberto Zedda and portraying Don Profondo in Il Viaggio a Reims at the Teatro Rossini; his debut with the Opera Orchestra of New York as Duke Azzo in Parisina d’Este conducted by Eve Queler of which the New York Times said he “brought elegant phrasing and keen dramatic instincts”; a role debut as Valentin in Faust as well as his house and role debut as Zurga in Les pêcheurs de perles with the Tulsa Opera, both conducted by Emmanuel Plasson; a concert with the Dallas Opera for the Linda and Mitch Hart Institute for Women Conductors where he sang arias and duets under the batons of Alba Bomfim, Caroyln Watson, and Monika Wolinska; his United Kingdom recital debut at St. George’s Hall (Liverpool) in a programme of Rossini, Liszt, Gounod, Mozart and more; debuts with both the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Centre and Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, singing Brahms’s Liebeslieder Walzer and Schumann’s Spanische Liebeslieder with Cecile Licad and Ken Noda, respectively; his Carnegie Hall debut was in collaboration with the Musical Olympus Festival where he sang arias by Verdi and Donizetti; his debut at Alice Tully Hall debut was with the "I Sing Beijing Programme" featuring Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with the Santa Cruz Symphony; singing the opening night concert of the Pécs Plácido Domingo Classics Festival with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra conducted by Eugene Kohn in Hungary; performances of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and XIAN Xinghai’s The Yellow River Cantata with the Hartford Symphony; and a performance at the “Zürich Stiftung Opera Bel Canto Night” under the tutelage of Francisco Araiza in Zürich.

Further appearances in Asia have included performances of Marco Polo created by the international team of German composer Enjott Schneider, Chinese opera writer WEI Jin, and Danish stage director Kasper Holten at the Guangzhou Opera House and Quanzhou Opera House; his Japanese debut as Count Almaviva in a new production of Le nozze di Figaro at the Hyogo Performing Arts Centre conducted by Yutaka Sado and he repeated the role at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing conducted by LÜ Jia; Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and baritone soloist in YE Xiaogang’s The Song of the Earth with the Harbin Symphony Orchestra conducted by TANG Muhai, and the role of Guglielmo in Così Fan Tutte with the China Macao Symphony.

WANG Yunpeng’s awards include the Second Prize (as well as the Zarzuela Prize and coveted Audience Favorite Award) at Plácido Domingo’s 2012 Operalia Competition; First Prize in the 2014 Gerda Lissner Foundation International Vocal Competition; First Prize in the Alan M. and Joan Taub Ades Vocal Competition; and recipient of the 2017 Martin E. Segal award at Lincoln Centre awarded by the Metropolitan Opera. He received his Bachelor of Music from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from The Manhattan School of Music. Mr. WANG has participated in masterclasses with Renata Scotto, James Levine, Marco Armiliato, Piotr Beczała, Sherrill Milnes, James Morris, Francesca Zambello, John Fisher, Carol Vaness, Anne Murray. In 2018, Mr. WANG was appointed as a Guest Professor at the Xinghai Conservatory of Music in Guangzhou, China. He is a former member of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Programme.